The extension works, but the site itself is trainwreck. It recurringly thinks I am a bot, asks some questions, I need to solve a captcha, then it still denies all services. So basically there is no point in using this extension, because the service behind it is unreliable.

Do not use it, there are other, more competent and privacy respecting search engines.

It worked for a couple of days. I liked it. The worst part was no way to completely turn off "Safe Search". But after a couple of days no matter what I searched for ALL search results came back with a "503 error" blank page. Uninstalled; might try again later...

Startpage, why in sin did you not add an '@' for your Search Shortcuts keyword? It's such a dumb decision that makes it harder to search for details about Startpage, and I already have it as my default search engine so it's redundant.
For those who may ask "why not just change the keyword?" For some ungodly reason, it doesn't remove the default keyword when you set a new keyword.

On Startpage you could or can see ads from Nord. At the same time, Nord promotes Startpage as the best search engine. However, in my opinion, Nord is anything but serious and does not really care about privacy.

In my opinion, Startpage has proven that the privacy of its users is not its top priority and I can only advise against using their services or add-ons.

Ich benutze Startpage seit Jahren. Es war aber plötzlich von Firefox verschwunden. Ich hole es wieder, weil es diskreter ist und jede neuoffene Seite im eigenen Tab erscheint.

Can we get a verbatim option? come on.... What good is privacy if we can't find anything to begin with? Quotations, plus symbols, and ampersands are all ignored, the only operator that works is the minus operator

Edit:
Well, some work, as for it working the same as bing that would be correct, because they don't work on bing either. As for google, in combination with verbatim mode they actually do work. On startpage it depends, the site: filetype: and intitle: operators work, as does the - operator, but the "" and + operators, which are essentially verbatim operators, are generally ignored entirely, which is extremely annoying tbh

startpage + an ad block= ultimate privacy.